Motivational Quotes

Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld